The Cecil Whig., 1887-11-19

tie Srnc,.Cc at Two OF lhem,-Schwab
and Fl, ldrn. to Imprisonment tor hie
Ejr".. the 4; "Nt daring OF all, has eS.
capcd the, g.ltpw~ h> committing sui
.i,Ir. August :SN,rr =, the I""hhl'r lcai-
ilg spliit oi the ANARCHIST mnvrm"nt
vet who is So tar from hinodlhlr1t.
r,ffian that he is sal, to FAINT at the
81. hit Of blood, has proven that ''the
brayest aIe the ;cndrrcst. " by appealing
to the Governor to allow him to suffer
yiCariouslv. BY the time the DtW0c3ul
goes to press, il is probable that there
will have been a maniac mob IL the
streets of Chicago, and It's accompany
ilg fortuities, or else that the four re-
naming doomed men have gone to
dealh TO satisfy the howlings uf senu-
ment that in Its zeal tcr victims, is will
hng 10 hang men for resultant crimes.
There is no proof, aud We doubt II
ANYBODY believes that single one of the
Anarchists who are to be hanged for
murder was present where the murder is
said to have been committed tnat any
one Of them had the slightest idea that
such deed was contemplated or that
any one of them had ever given the
slightest foundation for the belief that
he would have approved it if he had
known il. We, who surely have never
gwen any cause to the most cautious
10 believe that we are not as cautious
rs he can be in defense of home and
hearthstone aud native land, venture
the protest that as an eye for an eye
never yet improved human vision, nor
a life for HE ever yet made more Sc
cure that which man will give all that
he hath for, 50 there is neither prudence,
SciSC, iiOl tilS tlluIS9t SShiolfiIS VI
wisdom in this foolish experiment Of
dealing with a cause and its devotees,
capable of 50 much irrepressible mis-
chief. In dealing with desperate things,
the greatest care should be taken to
avoid folly. No one takes advantage
of bIunder 50 readily as a maletactor.
The blood of Anarchist martyrs may yet
become the seed Of an Anarchist
church. ."-CccH Democrat, N0v. I2,
1887.
Either unwittingly or Intentionally
our cotemporary in the above editorial,
teaches the self-same doctrine held
everywhere by Anarchists, Nihilists,
Communists, and the Socialistic fol-
lowers Of the red flag" of murder, in
Cendiarism and destruction,-tha they
are in no sense accountable.as inriters
of murder, SO long as the one indivld-
ual murderer who throws the bomb,
lights the fuse, or fires the shot cannot
beidenufiad.
In other words, that Spies, Parsons
ar any other Anarchist may by incen
diary acts and iu4aammatory speeches
before armed organizations or "sec-
tons of their followers, excite, in
spire, encourage, and promote riot,
bloodshed, and murder, and yet not be
amcnable to law, unless he have a
murderous bomb, or deadly weapon in
his own hand, with which to execute
his murdcr0us threats.
Monstrous doctrine indeed, and one
eminentlY worthy the NEST reckless
disciple of Herr Most.
In absolute refutation of SO darger-
Gus and dannable heresy, we hold
in language more forciole than we can
formulate it, that the man who con-
spires to kill any guardian of the peace
and safety of communlty-the man
who joins in meetings where "drilling"
with deadly weapons and other instruc-
tiOns are carried on III aid of the same
murderous intent-the man who issues
publications intended to promote the
same plCt-thc man VINO makes i'h4m-
matOry speeches dt mob meeting to
excite other men to commit violence
with the sane Sn2 in view-the man
who makes or supplies deadly weapons
TO be used for the same otject-every
one OF them is guilty of murder if the
conspiracy is executed and causes the
death OF even one person-guilty, every
one Of them, whelhel writer, or speaker,
or publisher, or dynamite fabricatUr-
guilty, every one of them, as that man
is whose hand strikes the actual deadly
blew, discharges the revolver, lights the
fuse or throws the bomb. III mu,aer-
Gus c0HSbitacieS 0f this kind eue,y
0Hs zch0 has talt or lot IN Promoting
them is a b17HrI6aL, Me,;e arr no &C
GeSS01IcS and U9 dCgyces.
Our cotemporary claims to be
Lawyer as well as an editor ; will he deny
this is law? And yet he fecbly asserts
in the face of the fact OF the guilty
completely of Spies and his associates
III these Chicago murders, which every
man, woman, and child in this country
who can read newspaper, believes
that there is no proof, and we doubt
if any one believes, that a single one
of the Anarchists who are to be hanged
for murder was present, where the mur-
der is SAID 10 have been committed -
IS said 10 haze been c0mmiHcdr'
Was this bloody massacre OF seven
Chicago policemen in May, 1886, a
matter OF mere heresav, or doesn't he
believe that then killing was murder?
Why need this apologist of Anarchy
be 50 Ingenious, SO corsiderate OF the
characters Cf thfst. blltent CrIminal,3